Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GLAD'SOME-LY, adv.

With joy; with pleasure of mind.

GLAD'SOME-NESS, n.

1. Joy, or moderate joy; pleasure of mind.
2. Showiness. Johnson.

GLAD'WIN, n.

A plant of the genus Iris. Fam; of Plants.

GLAIR, n. [Fr. glaire; In Sax. glare is amber, or anything transparent; This coincides with W. eglur, Eng. clear, L. clarus, and with Eng. glare, and L. gloria; perhaps with L. glarea, gravel, or pieces of quartz.]

1. The white of an egg; It is used as a varnish for preserving paintings. Encyc.
2. Any viscous transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
3. A kind of halberd. Dict.

GLAIR, v.t.

To smear with the white of an egg; to varnish.

GLAIR-ED,

pp; Smeared with the white of an egg.

GLAIR-Y, a.

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities. Fleming.

GLANCE, n. [G; glanz, a ray, a beam or shoot of light, 'plendor; D. glans; Dan; glands; Sw; glans. The primary sense is to shoot, to throw, to dart.]

1. A sudden shoot of light or splendor. Milton.
2. A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as, a sudden glance; a glance of the eye. Dryden. Watts.

GLANCE, v.i.

1. To shoot or dart a ray of light or splendor. When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly. Rowe.
2. To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside; The arrow struck the shield and glanced. So we say, a glancing ball or shot.
3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. Then sit again, and sigh and glance. Suckling.
4. To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as, to glance at a different subject.
5. To censure by oblique hints. Shak.

GLANCE, v.t.

To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye. Shak.

GLANCE-COAI, n.

Anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon; [See Anthracite.] Cyc.

GLAN-CED, pp.

Shot, or darted suddenly.

GLAN-CING,

ppr; Shooting; darting; casting suddenly; flying off obliquely.

GLAN-CING-LY, adv.

By glancing; in a glancing manner; transiently. Hakewill.

GLAND, n. [L. glans, a nut glandola, a gland; Fr. glande. Qu; Gr; {foreign}, with a different prefix.]

1. In anatomy, a distinct soft body, formed by the convolution of a great number of vessels, either constituting a part of the lymphatic system, or destined to secrete some fluid from the blood. Glands have been divided into conglabate and conglomerate, from their structure; but a more proper division is into lymphatic and secretory. The former are found in the course of the lymphatic vessels, and are con-globate; The latter are of various structure. They include the mucous follicles, the conglomerate glands, properly so called, such as the parotid glands and the pancreas, the liver, kidneys, &c. The term has also been applied to other bodies of a similar appearance, neither lymphatic nor secretory; such as the thymus and thyroid glands, whose use is not certainly known, certain portions of the brain, as the pineal and pituitary glands, &c. [See Conglobate and Conglomerate.] Encyc. Purr. Coxe.
2. In botany, a gland or glandule is an excretory or secretory duct or vessel in n plant. Glands are found on the leaves, petioles, peduncles and stipules. Martyn.

GLAND'ER-ED, n.

Affected with glanders. Berkley.

GLAND'ERS, n. [from gland.]

In farriery, a disease of the mucous membrane of the nostrils of horses, in its progress attended with an inerewed and vitiated secretion.

GLAN-DIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. glandifer; glans, an acorn, and fero, to bear.]

Benring acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast. The beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.

GLAND'I-FORM, a. [L. glans and forma, form.]

In the shape of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.

GLAND'U-LAR, a.

Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

GLAND-U-LA'TION, n.

In botany, the situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glundules, follicles, or utricles. Lee.

GLAND'ULE, n. [L. glandola.]

A small gland or secreting vessel.

GLAND-U-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. glandula and fern, to bear.]

Bearing glands. Lee.

GLAND-U-LOS'I-TY, n.

A collection of glands. [Little used.] Brown.

GLAND'U-LOUS,

lo; [L. glandulosus.] Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.